The Challenge of Remote Learning with the Elderly during the Covid-19 Pandemic

This article aimed to discuss the challenges faced by teachers of Youth and Adult Education (YAE) in the municipality of João Pessoa/PB, to teach the elderly during the covid-19 pandemic. The qualita-tive method was adopted and information was collected with 10 teachers through a questionnaire in Google Forms virtual format. They were exam-ined with the Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). The results revealed the difficulties that teachers face in dealing with remote teaching, especially with the elderly, since this portion of the population has its own technological deficiencies and is not used to this teaching format. © 2023, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul,Faculdade de Educacao. All rights reserved.

Higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil: the factors that influenced student participation

In early 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic began to affect every area of society, the situation in Brazil was no different from that of other countries. Covid-19 brought the implementation of social isolation measures and led to readjustments in living and working conditions. In turn, this led to readjustments in the conditions of employees and users of public services who wished to access those services. In education, it also created new social inequalities resulting from teachers and students' lack of access to the technologies, tools and programmes they needed. Other issues detected were health and financial problems due to unemployment as well as a lack of policies aimed at reducing the number of working hours. In view of this, the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), the Federal University of Paraiba (UFPB) and the University of Pernambuco (UPE), all of which are located in the northeast of Brazil, carried out an inter-institutional study of factors that influenced the participation of undergraduate students in online classes during the period of social isolation. The aim of this article is to present the partial results from this study in relation to student profile and the infrastructure available to those students to aid their participation in the online classes taught on their respective degree programmes.

Standard operating procedure of image-guided intervention during the COVID-19 pandemic: a combined tertiary musculoskeletal oncology centre experience.

AIM: To evaluate the response measures in continuing an image-guided intervention service in two tertiary-level musculoskeletal oncology centres during the COVID-19 pandemic. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This study was a retrospective review of all patients undergoing image-guided intervention in the computed tomography (CT) and normal ultrasound (US) rooms from 24 March 2020 to 24 May 2020 (during the COVID-19 pandemic peak) at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, London, and Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Birmingham, UK. Measures were put in place to address air pressures, airflow direction, aerosol generation, and the safe utilisation of existing scanning rooms and work lists for interventional procedures. RESULTS: Three hundred and thirty-one patients (164 at Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and 167 at Royal Orthopaedic Hospital) underwent image-guided procedures at both sites in the CT and US rooms. At the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, 40% of all procedures were performed under general anaesthesia. These consisted of 47 CT biopsies, 7 CT radiofrequency ablations (RFAs), and 12 US biopsies. At the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, 86% of all procedures were performed under local anaesthetic, with no general anaesthetic procedures. These consisted of 61 CT biopsies and 83 US biopsies. All 256 patients having procedures in the CT room had no post-procedural complications or COVID-19-related symptoms and morbidity on follow-up. CONCLUSION: By adopting a pragmatic approach with meticulous planning, a limited, but fully functional image-guided interventional list can be run without any adverse patient outcomes.